Yesterday I saw a man wearing a familiar hat. It took me a moment to realize it was the exact same plastic-neon-tie-dye baseball cap Michael J. Fox wears in Back To The Future Part Two. The future has arrived, my friends.
It didn’t take me long to notice that the not-too-distant future portrayed in movies always seems to end up looking like the 1980s. This not just something that happens in movies made during the 80s, either. Sure, this prediction in the 70s it was technically accurate, but in the 90s it was just stale. In this new century, it’s more confusing.
Something about that era of humiliating exaggerated fashion and baffling social trends must’ve been ahead of its time. The armchair futurists in Hollywood have always envisioned the future as something they could never understand, so it is always depicted as something the modern viewer will simply shrug and go along with. You’re never more futuristic than when you’re doing something you don’t understand, and the world has never been more nonsensical than it was in the 80s.
And just as the thinkers in Hollywood are lazy, so is the progression of fashion cyclical. From legwarmers to synthesizers to those plastic sunglasses with the slits cut out, the 80s are back in a big way. That means, as far as I can tell, we’ve arrived. This is the future.
It’s a little disappointing. I was hoping there would be more sex-robots.
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Those plastic, slitted shades are called shutters. I still have mine from the future.
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